If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.
My alma mater was books, a good library.... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.
A man who has never gone to school may steal a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.
Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it.
You can never be overdressed or overeducated.
I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think
You can never learn less, you can only learn more.
If I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn't have been worth the Nobel Prize.
A child miseducated is a child lost.
Necessity is the mother of invention.
Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.
Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.
Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.
The task of a writer is not to solve the problem but to state the problem correctly.
Just because I don't care doesn't mean I don't understand.
Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
The idea is to try to give all the information to help others to judge the value of your contribution; not just the information that leads to judgment in one particular direction or another.
If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.
Free the child's potential, and you will transform him into the world.
Just when I thought there wasn't room enough for another thought in my head, I had this great idea.